Puppy training

Dogs learn all the time and from day one when we get our puppy we make sure that it learns what we want it to. Puppy training is so much fun and with clicker training we can start training the puppy right from the start. In this category you’ll find all our blog posts on puppy training.

You might think that I only train delivery to hand considering how many of my blog spots focuses on that behavior. Well, I obviously train a lot of different things, but I put a lot of effort into the training of delivery to hand. So here’s a short film about delivery...

I have had – and still have – a very good use of the Switching Game when I train obedience with my dog Tassla. She is now doing obedience training on the elite level (FCI class III), and there is more retrieving at this level than at the others. We – all the obedience...

The other day I discovered that my dog Tassla has very high expectations to retrieve when I throw something. It is, of course, great to have a dog that loves to retrieve, but sometimes it can be a little too much. It is important to find the golden mean; the dog...

The “Switching Game” – One of the Best Games for Your Dog This game is a favorite of mine. It is a very good basic exercise for the gun dog training as well as a great exercise for puppies, but it can be trained with any dog, regardless of age. It’s a game – of course...

When my dog Tassla was about five months old she was like a sponge; she learned everything incredibly fast and it was very easy for her to understand what I wanted her to do. Already at that time Tassla had a solid ground to stand on as I had done a lot of basic...

Retrieving is a very useful skill even if you’re not planning on competing in field trials or obedience. In my every day life my dogs help me out with a lot of stuff – picking up things from the floor, delivering messages, finding lost items etc. In the...

Seeker is now seven months old and he’s an amazingly cuddly dog that’s fun and challanging to train. A part from foundation training for future important gun dog behaviours we’ve also worked on just hanging around in our every day life. One thing...

When I wrote this, Tod had already been with me a month! Time flies with a puppy and since he was already 16 weeks when I picked him up it feels like he’s grown into a lanky youngster at the speed of light. He’s a great puppy with lots of good qualities that I really...

Summer is here and puppies are born everywhere. The best part is that our “pack” at Klickerförlaget will get two new members! Åsa Davidsson, our instructor colleague, went to England to pick up a black Labrador boy a month ago. Meet Castleman’s...

In Retrieving For All Occasions we describe many ways to get the dog used to game. I won’t cover them all here (you get to read the book J), and it’s also Elsa who’s by far the most experienced in getting dogs used to game through all the clients she works with. There...